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had not been in society for some years. I 

 wished to get into his company ; which I 

 at last effected. He proved to be an Irish 

 doctor, out of the Gennesee country; and 

 was come there to buy drugs : to enable him 

 to do which, he was obliged to bring horses 

 to sell, as he had no other means of raising 

 money 5 and he told me, he should lose at 

 least half what the horses had cost him in 

 price and expences, before he got them 

 sold. He had six horses, and had been 

 at Alexandria, and the federal city, several 

 days, and sold but one. As there are 

 no fairs in those countries, you are not 

 sure of a purchaser, as in England. At 

 Baltimore he exposed them to auction : he 

 told me, he had sold one horse for forty- 

 five dollars, which had cost him one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars before he set out. 

 He had come six hundred miles : but the 

 expences were so great, that he must part 

 with them, lose what he might. It 

 should be understood, the prices the Doctor 



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